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stiff-neckedness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The property or character of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.

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Examples

  • I know the stiff-neckedness of those Spanish tubs.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • If Nora had not been self-willed and stiff-necked beyond the usual self-willedness and stiff-neckedness of young women she might have been herself the mistress of Monkhams.

    He Knew He Was Right 2004

  • She saw only a silly stiff-neckedness which observed facts but smiled and refused to look them in the face.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • She saw only a silly stiff-neckedness which observed facts but smiled and refused to look them in the face.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • She saw only a silly stiff-neckedness which observed facts but smiled and refused to look them in the face.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • She saw only a silly stiff-neckedness which observed facts but smiled and refused to look them in the face.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • She saw only a silly stiff-neckedness which observed facts but smiled and refused to look them in the face.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • She seemed afraid his stiff-neckedness would persist.

    Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982

  • But she answered, may it please your Grace, he is no such man to do that, for all that he can do is only to-follow his own round-head-like stiff-neckedness, and e'en nothing else.

    The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

  • "She's fooled us to the limit of our special bent, and I take it that's stiff-neckedness!"

    The Winds of the World Talbot Mundy 1909

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